1. Registration

The page of Hungarians in Babel may only be edited registered users. If you want to register, you must give your user name, password, email address and complete name. In the Introduction field, introduce yourself shortly, we primarily want to know why you want to use this page. Please also state which languages you need permission to and tell us your favourite Hungarian authors.We send confirmation of your registration to the email address you provide.

2. Login

Once you log in with your user name and password, you are entitled to editing the page with certain limitations. You may add new authors, works and literary translations in the languages you have selected. If you wish to add a new language to the matrix, please write to info@magyarulbabelben.net.

3. Editing possibilities

Important information: outside users may only see an author if at least one of his/her works and its translation have been uploaded and approved by the page administrators. A translator becomes visible if there is at least one of his/her translation on the page, approved by the administrators. All the uploaded works may be found in the Administration menu under Authors.

Adding a new author:

If you want to an add a new author or tranlsator, click on New author/translator in the Administration menu and provide the necessary data. Copyright is valid for 70 years from the author’s death (if there are several translators, 70 years from the death of the author who died last). If the author died within the last 70 years,please indicate some availability so that we can check the legal beckground of the uploaded works. When you are finished, save all data.

Adding new works:

If you want to an add a new work, click on New work in the Administration menu. select the author’s mother tongue and name and provide the necessary data. Title of the work and Source of citation are obligatory fields; in the source field, indicate a website or the title of a volume.

Connected titles is an obligatory field if the work is protected by copyright (that is, if you are not uploading your own work and the author is alive or died within the last 70 years). In this case, please indicate some availability of the author so that we can check the legal beckground. The User is responsible for the legitimate use of the text, the administrators have a right to check this. When you are finished, click on Save.

Adding a new translation:

If you want to an add a new translation, click on New translation in the Administration menu. select the author’s mother tongue and name and provide the necessary data. Title of the work and Source of citation are obligatory fields; in the source field, indicate a website or the title of a volume. Connected titles is an obligatory field if the work is protected by copyright (that is, if you are not uploading your own work and the author is alive or died within the last 70 years). In this case, please indicate some availability of the author so that we can check the legal beckground. The User is responsible for the legitimate use of the text, the administrators have a right to check this. When you are finished, click on Save.

Visibility:

The authors, works and translations you uploaded only become visible when the administrators check and approve them. This may take several days or even weeks.

The works and translations you have uploaded may not be modified by other editors but they may comment on them in the Comment fields belonging to the given work. If you want to discuss general issues, please use the Forum.